Professor of Anthropology, chair of the Interdepartmental Program in Archaeology, and Global Antiquity affiliate, Stephen Acabado, recently published a co-authored article in the anthropological magazine Sapiens. Together with Marlon Martin, Piphal Heng, Earl John C. Hernandez, and Mylene Q. Lising, he presents an argument to set aside the three-age system (Stone, Bronze, and Iron) and adopt non-Eurocentric ways of thinking. By talking about a “deep past” instead of “prehistory,” we may set aside overly-simplistic narratives of linear, technological processes and find significance in inclusive and diverse stories about the past rather than the passage of time.

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